[Bulk] Re: [opensuse] defrag

[Knapp]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:35 AM, John Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Anton Aylward wrote:
>> John Heinen said the following on 02/13/2010 02:57 PM:
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>>> Thanks, Well, what happened is that my gateway with winxp and many other
>>> tries with live cd Linux just quit, that is the lights are flashing but
>>> the screen stays dark,  puppy linux  is the only one that could get some
>>> life with the message "defrage please". I probably need a new  hard
>>> drive or find one smart cd that can work miracles.
>>>
>>
>> Curious.
>>
>> I think you have hardware problems.
>> I have a folder of LiveCDs for Linux - I seem to collect them :-)
>> All of them work on my 3-year old Presario, a couple don't on my
>> father's 5-year old ACER, but that only has 256K of memory :-(
>>
>> Defrag WHAT?
>>
>> The whole point of the LiveCD is that you run entirely from the CD.
>> I can imagine it would DETECT whatever disk you have, but that's all.
>> Unless you open a browser/file-manager it shouldn't take any notice of
>> your hard drive.
>>
>> Worst case - whcih is why some won't run on my father's machine - the
>> LiveCD tries to consturct an in-memory file system.  Obviously there
>> would be no point in trying to derag that!
>>
>>
>> Linux file system don't need defrag.
>> So where is that emssage coming from?
>>
>> Are you sure you're not trying to install Linux ONTO a MS file system?
>> I recall Mandriva and I tink Ubunttu have options for that.
>>
>> Where did you get you LiveCD from?
>> Did you checksum it
>>
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> Indeed it is liggit,  bought it from Discountlinux, a very reputable
> firm, that particular livecd puppy 431 does work fine on two other
> machines, with opensuse and also with ubuntu on the hard drive, and that
> is what it said "  DEFRAG PLEASE"

The old way of installing on a HD with MS was to defrag XP and then
shrink its partition to make room for Linux. This could be the source.

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Douglas E Knapp

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